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[theweaselking]

Malfunctioning elementary school light bulb sends 18 people to hospital with severe sunburn and swollen eyes.

Also,
8 dolphins swept away in the hurricane found.

Also,
Today's most telling headline: "Bush Plans Speech; Death Toll Rises"

Also,
Female horseshoe bats will share sexual partners with their mothers - but carefully won't mate with their biological father.

Also,
You can recover the keystrokes used by recording the sound of the keys being pressed.

Also,
Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney tells white supremacist group that he supports wiretapping Mosques.

Also,
Marriage - yes, even gay marriage - boosts prosperity and helps your children.

Also,
French writer scandalises country with horrifying new and different vision of television. And by that I mean totally new. Never seen before. Nobody's thought of anything like it. They might even make a movie. Or two.

Comments

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

The Long Walk still haunts me to this day, and The Running Man was striking, too. But your point is well made: *snicker*.

[pope-guilty.livejournal.com]

I adore The Running Man, and even made a game based on it in high school. I still want to see it made into a movie.

I'm with you on The Long Walk, as well.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

The Schwarzennegger version of The Running Man was great. Hush, you.

I mean, come on, Mick Fleetwood and Dweezil Zappa! Fucking Richard Dawson as Killian! Jesse "The Original Governator" Ventura! The man is a sexual tyrannosaurus!

I need to have another Jesse Ventura Movie Night.

[pope-guilty.livejournal.com]

Be that as it may, they still haven't made a movie out of the book, any more than they've made a movie out of Starshipp Troopers.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

And they're never going to. Not only does the narrative not lend itself well to a visual medium, but the ending would never be accepted by the general public or any specific media company.

Besides, a "turn off your TV, you FUCKS" movie? These days?

And Starship Troopers was a really interesting movie when you looked at it solely from the the "menus" that appeared around the screen. When you take the entire film as mass-produced pro-war government propaganda from that future society, it's really kinda cool. Sadly, watching it that way still doesn't make Denise Richards die.

[pope-guilty.livejournal.com]

I'm not saying I don't like Starship Troopers- it's great fun with popcorn. I'm just saying it's not really Starship Troopers.

[pope-guilty.livejournal.com]

Did you like Series 7? I found it disturbing and came away feeling somewhat violated.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

I thought it was amazing. Saw it in the theatre, and I bought it on video.

torrain won't watch it and we live together, so I haven't actually seen it since the theatre.

And yes, it's very uncomfortable to watch. That's part of the awesome.

[corruptedjasper.livejournal.com]

Battle Royale. And II.